About this Book

This eBook is intended to be read alongside the plays, and as a commentary on them. This eBook has embedded full text of the plays at the start of each section (in the drop down menus) as well as links to PDF and DOC formats.

Note:  We have used the Folger Shakespeare Digital Texts Collection.

Folger digital texts are licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence

No changes have been made to the content.

These are free-to-use online copies.

Each play consists of five parts:

  1. Full play text  ( downloadable and printable)
  2. Context – Background to the time and place and how this has influenced the text.
  3. Story-  Key events and chapter breakdowns of the plot.
  4. Characters- Key characters and motivations.
  5. Attitudes and Issues- Examination of the key themes of each play

 

 

 

 

 

Licence

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Shakespeare's Major Plays Copyright © 2024 by Cheryl Taylor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.